Sentences with phrase «end of the second world»

Guggenheim's Minerd calls Brexit «the biggest sea change on global collectiveness since the end of the Second World War.»

«The free trade, or freer trade, that we've had since the end of the Second World War has been the great engine which has lifted up literally hundreds of millions of people out of poverty — far more than any aid programs,» Hufbauer says.

He is continuing a cross-country tour, meeting with Albertans which will include those in Grande Prairie, a riding which hasn't seen a red MP since the end of the Second World War.

This change is needed because we are in a period of history that is undergoing the most significant change in buyer behaviors since the end of the Second World War.

The new world order is basically a social change that is happening right now because of: the advent of networking and networking communications, the degree of inequality that is starting to surface across the developed worlds, the richer getting richer and the poorer getting poorer, and a number of other factors that we'll get into, but it's changing the forms governance, it is going to change the forms of institutions that haven't changed since the Breton Woods at the end of the Second World War which were predominantly US - based institutions if you would: IMF, World Bank in Washington, the United Nations in New York.

Little wonder that the major European powers, and not Germany alone, preferred to fasten onto anything but the Holocaust at the end of the Second World War.

However, these issues start with the disadvantage (for their proponents) of trying to overcome the bulwark of human rights laws which, since the end of the Second World War, have increasingly placed duties on nations to protect life and to outlaw any deliberate deprivation of life.

1920) came occupation by Western powers which continued until the end of the second World War.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was asked to lead a service for his fellow prisoners in Flossenburg concentration camp towards the end of the Second World War As he finished two men flung open the door and told prisoner Bonhoeffer to take his things and come with them.

At the end of the Second World War the Nuremberg trials for those guilty of war crimes highlighted the point that it was not acceptable to justify one's actions by claiming you were following orders or laws.

As the OECD has pointed out, most of these people were lifted out of poverty by the globalization and expansion of trade since the end of the Second World War, the largest shift out of poverty in human history.

At the end of the Second World War, when the Nuremberg prosecutors were gathering evidence for the upcoming trials, one of the many people they turned to for assistance was Pope Pius XII.

Ironically, the country which grew the fastest into a status of superpower was the Soviet Union, which went from being a country that was completely destroyed at the end of the second world war, to a super power from 1945 to the mid fifties.

This «moment» extended from the end of the Second World War through the early 1960s, although Sehat finds precursors even in the 1920s.

As a cultural practice, circumcision was adopted at the end of the Second World War as a regular neonatal practice in English speaking countries, including England, the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand.

Sir Winston Churchill first used the term «special relationship» in 1946 a year after the end of the Second World War.

In 1964, the last year the death penalty was in force, there were 296 homicides in England and Wales, and the homicide rate had consistently fallen since the end of the Second World War.

By the end of the Second World War anarchism as a political force was effectively dead.

Following his victory, Benn said leaving the EU would be «the most complex process since the end of the second world war».

He looks at the period, two decades after the end of the Second World War, in a divided Germany, still struggling to come to terms with its place in the world.

After the end of the Second World War, Shepherd, together with his wife Allison, went to Singapore as an employee of a British trading company.

But annual growth figures go back far further and show a far longer period of growth - a quarter - century's worth, lasting from the end of the second world war to the first oil shock of the seventies.

This is a Conservative - led government presiding over the highest tax burden since the end of the second world war and the smallest standing army since Victorian times.

The instructions will come in a letter from Treasury Chief Secretary Danny Alexander, in the latest step in preparing for what is set to be the toughest spending review since the end of the Second World War.

And when Hurricane Ike came through in 2008, it was just like Berlin at the end of the second world war.

FOR about thirty years after the end of the Second World War, the American government, through the Department of Defense, the CIA and various nongovernment research institutions, conducted medical research on several thousand of its citizens, often without their knowledge.

For example, girls born to Dutch women who were pregnant during a long famine at the end of the second world war had twice the usual risk of developing schizophrenia.

The Soviet Union acquired them at the end of the Second World War, but Japan still claims rights over the southernmost four.

THE American atomic bombs that dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 signalled the end of the Second World War — and the start of the Cold War and the nuclear arms race.

These studies lived through a golden age after the end of the Second World War and played, in the shadow of nuclear energy (the physics topic of the time), an important political role.

evere drought in 2017 led to what many claim is the largest humanitarian crisis since the end of the second world war, with more than 25 million people across four countries — Nigeria, Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia — facing starvation and famine.

Stamatis Moraitis was a Greek war veteran who came to America for medical treatment toward the end of the Second World War.

The situation turns out to have its genesis in Wolverine's experiences in Japan at the end of the second world war; now he finds himself mixed up with corporate skulduggery, yakuza crime, and a neo-Samurai cult of violence, culminating in a showdown in a weirdly designed interior location with high - up walkways and metal galleries whose only architectural function is to let people fall to their deaths.

Stephen Frears» follow - up movie to last year's impressive biopic The Program could not be any different, and here he teams with Nicholas Martin, a successful television writer behind episodes of Midsomer Murders, Soldier Soldier and Dalziel & Pascoe, for an brilliantly funny romp set in New York City towards the end of the second World War.

Born only a few months after the end of the Second World War, Wim Wenders is a product of post-war (West) Germany.

The movie tells the story of «Sonson, an unassuming young lawyer (Luke Mably) who leads a fight against the Nazis near the end of the Second World War.

Further, I am very concerned that the foundations of our liberal democracies are under challenge now to a degree not seen since the end of the Second World War.

Seventy years ago Germany stood in ashes at the end of the Second World War.

An Englishman restoring and re-imagining the most iconic German sports car of all time from a workshop in Sun Valley, southern California, may sound like an unconventional business plan, but there's method in his apparent madness; the area has been hot rod central since the end of the Second World War, for starters.

The broadcast, which will be held at 3:00 PM EST, will take viewers through the journey of how the Land Rover began as a utility model at the end of the Second World War and grew to become the world's favorite 4x4, with more than 7 million sold globally.

In the summer of 1961, sixteen years after the end of the Second World War, the world was faced for the first time with the realistic threat of nuclear annihilation.

That changed after William Lyon Mackenzie King created the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. at the end of the Second World War to backstop the construction of new homes for returning soldiers.

The keiretsu system they have where there's a sort of conglomerate of industrial and financial... Most of the financing of industry was done by borrowed money rather than by equity through Japan's revival from the end of the Second World War so they had an average debt level of about 1.5 times GDP until about 1980.

By the end of the Second World War, the number of flat - coats had dwindled to the point that the breed was threatened with extinction.

They were the first country to realise the potential of high - speed rail travel and invested a lot of time, money and effort into turning those ideas into possibility following the end of the Second World War.

Near the end of the Second World War Budapest became a front line city as Hungary was once again allied with the Germans and the Soviets; the German Army barricaded themselves in the castle quarter, and as a result the city suffered severe damage from air strikes.

Almost entirely destroyed during the Warsaw Uprising at the end of the Second World War, the Polish capital is now synonymous with resistance and resilience.

Visit the Million Dollar Point where millions of dollars worth of equipment and war machinery was dumped at the end of the Second World War.

I will not spend time quoting you facts and figures which illustrate how the global tourism industry has grown since the end of the Second World War, because that we all know.

Situated in an alternate history at the end of the Second World War, when Nazis managed to release a deadly virus over US territory, the game tells the story of two brothers and their intricate relation with the apocalyptic world rising in the leftovers of the Z0M81 Pandemic ravage.»